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LENIN COLLECTION
2698
TELEGRAM TO A. D. TSYURUPA
July 1921

Tsyurupa,

In accordance with your petition, your leave is extended for 3 months. Keep your spirits up and by all means complete the full course of treatment. You will be an excellent worker*.

Lenin

8484
TELEPHONOGRAM TO THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSARIAT OF FOOD OF UKRAINE**
August 6, 1921

Kharkov, Vladimiroff,

First: I advise selling salt exclusively for bread and under no circumstances for currency notes.

Second: Sell salt only to volosts, villages, or individual householders who have paid no less than 1/3 or 1/2 of the tax.

Third: I believe that in order to successfully collect the tax, military units are necessary to assist in this collection, so that these military units receive enhanced rations at the expense of the local peasants until the tax is paid.

Fourth: I request that you report on the food situation of the Donbas, how well supplied it is and for what period.

Lenin

7392
LETTER TO A MEMBER OF THE COLLEGIUM OF THE VChK
August 9, 1921

In your letter concerning Shelekhes (Yakov Savelievich) you state: "people are petitioning for him" all the way up to Lenin and you request permission to "pay no attention whatsoever to any petitions and pressures in the matter of the State Treasury."

I cannot grant this. The inquiry I sent is neither "petitions," nor "pressure," nor "advocacy."

I am obliged to make an inquiry once doubts are brought to my attention regarding correctness.

You are obliged to answer me substantively: "the arguments or evidence are serious as follows, I am against release, against mitigation," etc.

That is precisely how you must answer me substantively. Petitions and "advocacy" you may reject; "pressure" is an unlawful action. But I repeat, your confusion of an inquiry from the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars with advocacy, petitions, or pressure is erroneous.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

Printed from a typewritten copy.

ON IMPROVING HOUSING ADMINISTRATION
NOTES TO THE SMALL COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS*

37103
August 1921

Our houses are disgr**aced shamefully. The law is worthless. It is necessary to designate responsible persons ten times more precisely and completely (and not just one, but many in succession) and imprison them without mercy.

37401
August 11, 1921

I agree without additions:

1) In addition to the manager, his "deputy" is responsible. There must be a deputy;

2) In addition to them, a control commission of residents is responsible. There must be such a commission of no fewer than 3 persons, who must always be present in person or represented by their deputies.

3) All these persons are answerable both in court and administratively.

Lenin

*In his notes, V. I. Lenin provides instructions for correction and supplementation of the "Regulations on the Administration of Houses," adopted by the Small Council of People's Commissars on August 8, 1921. The "Regulations" were published in Izvestia on August 12, 1921.